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Anyone remember Mr. Pockets? Pool, cheap nachos and pool table side telephone service! Steve Napolitano and Brad Jacobson take a 2019 Toyota Camry out to take one last look at the Sepulveda icon.

Thanks to Jeanann at Hour One and the Unita Club for letting us in for a look. Unita club is submitting a proposal to open a co-working space at that location. This video was made possible through the continued support from Manhattan Beach Toyota

Brad and Steve (Team BS) discuss the iconic Robi Hutas photo of the 1976 Manhattan Open. Robi Hutas was one of the original beach volleyball photographers. Thanks to Manhattan Beach Toyota for their continued support.

The South Bay is very photogenic and our friend Richard Podgurski Jr. does an incredible job capturing beautiful images from both the land and air across Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach and the rest of the South Bay. We caught up with Richard to find out more about both his personal and business interest.

A few tips if you happen to find yourself our new Roommate in the Back Unit. If you find yourself in that back unit, remember those two choices: close up real tight and pretend we’re not happening, or fling that door open and let us in. And considering I’ve had to help my Roommates break into both of those units before….just go ahead and let us in.

Daughter is waiting for you. – A Civic Couch production hosted by Emily Tecklenburg (Gelato Mama)

The Easy Reader Newspaper recently wrote a great article about a Redondo Beach Chef, Haruo Kurisaki and it got raving comments so we decided to do a follow up video ourselves to get a visual feel for the chef and his restaurant Kurisaki in Redondo Beach so we sent Steve Napolitano to sit down with “Kuri” to interview him and grab some sushi.

Michael Schreiber calls South Bay Customs in El Segundo home. Home is a place where he can not only build motorcycles, but assemble something else, something he’d never seen before except in his mind’s eye — a pirate’s ship of a building, a skull and bones kingdom where he can make his own rules.

Manhattan Beach resident Kerri Walsh Jennings and her partner April Walsh mathematically qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio Wednesday May 18th at the Cincinnati Open, where they won their first match.

Kerri regularly practices in Manhattan Beach, where we caught up with her while she was training. Rio will mark Walsh Jennings’s fourth Olympics on the beach (fifth in total). We are excited for our hometown hero and wish her the best!

El Segundo TV teamed up with Amanda O’Donnell and Joe Damagong of the El Segundo Police Department to help explain microchipping your pet. Approximately 7.6 million family pets enter animal shelters nation wide each year (according to the ASPCA). Providing your pets with both tags and a microchip can help ensure a happy reunion if the unthinkable happens. Contact the El Segundo Animal Hospital for more info: (310)606-8811.

For this episode of the Civic Couch Show we sit down with world renown stand up paddler Slater Trout.

Growing up Slater Trout’s life was based around the water. At the age of 11, Slater chose to forge his own path through the young and fresh sport of Stand Up Paddling. By doing so he found himself competing and succeeding against athletes mostly double his age. While traveling for SUP Races / Surf competitions around the world, he developed his passion for photography. As his photography portfolio is growing, he hopes that each of his photos will inspire and invite you to experience the world through his eyes. Whether Slater is competing for a Stand Up Paddling World Title or documenting his life through photography, he is always excited for the next journey.

In this episode of the Civic Couch show we catch up with the King Harbor Youth Foundation at the King Harbor Yacht Club in Redondo Beach. The King Harbor Youth Foundation is a non-profit corporation created to promote youth sailing in Southern California. They provide access to the sport of sailing to local girls and boys of all backgrounds, in order to build self-esteem, teamwork and a respect for the environment. To learn more about the foundation, visit their website: http://www.khyf.org